Black capuchin
Sapajus nigritus
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 2,928
- Most observed in
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
The black capuchin (Sapajus nigritus), also known as the black-horned capuchin, is a capuchin monkey from the Atlantic Forest in south-eastern Brazil and far north-eastern Argentina. Historically, it was included as a subspecies of the tufted capuchin.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Black capuchin”.